David's Computer Blog

I've been wanting to test Haiku OS on an Intel Xeon processor for a while. And recently I had my chance after having access to a  Dell PowerEdge R620 that was pulled from production. So I used a downloaded copy of Haiku OS nightly build from 8/20/2019. Below are screenshots of the maker and line as well as the processor specs for the system. BIOS Manufacture Screen BIOS Screen of Dell PowerEdge R620 used for testing Haiku did detect all the core processors (as shown in the screenshot below. It also found the network cards, although I was unable to test network connectivity. Haiku did not, however, detect the SAS drives as the screenshot also shows. Showing of Processor cores, NICs, drives As part of the test I ran GL Teapot, two Chart instances and the Haiku demo animation. The system ran quite fine. It was a quick test. I was hoping to install Haiku, but it didn't see the SAS drives. Still I considered it a successful test of Haiku on Intel Xeon proces...

I recently tested two types of programs on Icaros 2.2.5/Aros. The first was a basic GLUT program while the other was a basic MUI program. GLUT AmigaOS 3.x running simple GLUT program. I tried GLUT as I was looking for a cross platform GUI library that provides basic windowing functions in OpenGL. Although GLUT provides basic window functions, it lacks in gadgets. So I did a further search and found the Agar Library  and the GLUI Library , both of which I will try in the future. So in testing GLUT on Icaros 2.2.5 and on AmigaOS 3.x, I downloaded a small sample program from this website . The sample program is here . I did modify the program and changed the screen resolution to 800 x 600 rather than the default of 1280 x 800. The sample GLUT program ran and operated successfully on AmigaOS 3.x, which was running on WinUAE 3.4.0. When running on Icaros the program ran but it did not draw the line. So unsure as to the cause of this on Icaros as other OpenGL programs ha...

 Icaros Desktop New Install I had some extra time recently, so I decided to try out the Icaros Desktop  2.2.5, which was released in December 2018. Icaros Desktop is an AmigaOS clone that runs on x86 hardware. Icaros is based upon Aros. Aros in an operating system that can be installed on an x86 computer and it requires no host operating system to run. Most AmigaOS emulators require a host operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. Aros, however, eliminates the need for a host OS.  OWB web browser running on Icaros Desktop It took maybe 10-15 minutes to install Icaros into a Virtual Machine (Oracle VM Virtual Box, to be precise). During the install I selected to install the Extras as well as the Developer tools. I tested the default web browser, OWB, soon after installation. It handled many website adequately. However, I was unable to compose this article using Icaros because I was unable to login to my blogging website, blogger.com, with OWB. And, ...